Judges 14:14

Samson Marries

¹³ But if you can’t explain it to me, you must give me 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes.”

“Tell us your riddle,” they replied. “Let’s hear it.” ¹⁴ So he said to them:

Out of the eater came something to eat,
and out of the strong came something sweet.

After three days, they were unable to explain the riddle. ¹⁵ On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Persuade your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Explain the Riddle

In Three Days

Three Days

Expound The Riddle

Genesis 3:15

I will put hostility between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her seed.
He will strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.

Deuteronomy 8:15-16

He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint-like rock for you.

1 Kings 17:6

The ravens kept bringing him bread and meat in the morning and in the evening, and he drank from the wadi.

2 Chronicles 20:2

People came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast number from beyond the Dead Sea and from Edom has come to fight against you; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).

2 Chronicles 20:25

Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to gather the plunder. They found among them an abundance of goods on the bodies and valuable items. So they stripped them until nobody could carry any more. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.

Proverbs 24:7

Wisdom is inaccessible to a fool;
he does not open his mouth at the gate.

Isaiah 53:10-12

Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely.
When You make Him a restitution offering,
He will see His seed, He will prolong His days,
and by His hand, the Lord’s pleasure will be accomplished.

Matthew 13:11

He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

Acts 8:31

“How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

Romans 5:3-5

And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,

Romans 8:37

No, in all these things we are more than victorious
through Him who loved us.

2 Corinthians 4:17

For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.

Philippians 1:12-20

Now I want you to know, brothers, that what has happened to me has actually resulted in the advance of the gospel,

Hebrews 2:14-15

Now since the children have flesh and blood in common, Jesus also shared in these, so that through His death He might destroy the one holding the power of death—that is, the Devil—

Hebrews 12:10-11

For they disciplined us for a short time based on what seemed good to them, but He does it for our benefit, so that we can share His holiness.

James 1:2-4

Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,

1 Peter 2:24

He Himself bore our sins
in His body on the tree,
so that, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.